Measuring time at work: are self-reports accurate?

John P. Robinson and colleagues have carefully collected and examined time data from nationally representative samples of respondents from the 1960s on. Based on their examinations of time data, Robinson and Ann Bostrom raised questions about the precision of the standard self-reported measure of w...

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Publicado en:Monthly Labor Review Vol. 121; no. 12; pp. 42 - 54
Autor principal: Jacobs, Jerry A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: US Department of Labor December 1998
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Sumario:John P. Robinson and colleagues have carefully collected and examined time data from nationally representative samples of respondents from the 1960s on. Based on their examinations of time data, Robinson and Ann Bostrom raised questions about the precision of the standard self-reported measure of working time. Four methods are used to examine the accuracy of self-reported measures of working time raised by Robinson and Bostrom.